Just for fun:
Open /usr/bin/emerge in a text editor and read the first 10 lines.
Then run
grep python-exec /usr/bin/*

It basically is the same what qtchooser does: Forward a python script to
the appropriate python version.

2018-07-23 13:20 GMT+03:00 Franz Fellner <alpine.art...@gmail.com>:

> IMO the problem is that qtchooser acts as one point to select ALL
> components for the default Qt, be it qt4 or qt5 (and possibly qt6 in 2020),
> without checking if the tool really exists.
> It just forwards the call to an execuatble with the same name inside the
> qt-installation's bin dir. (/usr/lib/qt...)
> qtconfig got removed and people (with DEs lacking qt integration) couldn't
> configure their fonts/colors/widget style/... anymore. So someone just
> started to develop a third-party config tool to fill the gap.
> qtchooser on the other hand is an official qt tool (at least it is hosted
> on qt's servers). I think that's why they don't just call qt5ct ;) And it
> would introduce a speacial case for just this one tool.
>
>
> 2018-07-23 13:05 GMT+03:00 Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com>:
>
>> On Monday, 23 July 2018 10:09:38 BST Franz Fellner wrote:
>> > Yeah, stupid qtchooser ;)
>> >
>> > qtconfig got dropped, use x11-misc/qt5ct instead.
>>
>> Thanks Franz, qtconfig used to be installed by default with Qt.  I wonder
>> why
>> x11-misc/qt5ct isn't treated the same, especially as qtconfig is left on
>> the
>> box and is symlinked to qtchooser now.  :-/
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Mick
>
>
>

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